Confessions of a teenage drama queen

18 year old Michelle is from Letterkenny and will be doing her Leaving Cert this year. Here she tells us about life as a poverty stricken student!

Guess what? Schools out for the summer!  Yes that time has come again when fun filled students are off for 3 whole months. Now the question on every teenager's mind right now is what shall we do?

I'm currently poverty stricken; while my best friends are sitting their Leaving Certificate I spend my days searching for jobs with no luck. I think I owe my parents a few hundred euros, which I promise to pay them back, although right now I'm thinking of turning to monopoly money hoping they will see the funny side!

Teenage life is really not easy let me tell you. Every afternoon I get up at around 1-2pm; lounge about in my pyjamas watching Oprah until about 3pm. I drag myself away from the TV and get dressed, and then it's back to watching TV until like 5pm. Now comes the harrowing task of job hunting. I'm sick and tired of looking at my CV at this stage. I realise I don't have very many accomplishments but oh well I'm still young.

Endless amount of hours are then spent fighting with my sister, ignoring my parents or watering the flowers for my mother whose philosophy I still don't understand. Why does she pay so much money for flowers that are going to die soon?

Imagine not been allowed a trampoline in your garden because it will ruin the flowers. Deprived child right here!

Do you ever get that feeling when you go into a shop that you have to have a certain item? In my few weeks off I have come across so many needs its not even funny. From clothes, credit, DVDs to trampolines (hint hint mother) and even a car you name it I want it. To call me selfish is a safe assumption but I'm like every other teenager out there we always want what we can't have. It's so unfair but then again that's life. Social life in Letterkenny, the possibilities for those sociable beings out there are endless. Let's see on Friday Nights there is the Fubar or McGinley's, Saturdays its got to be Mono and Milan and Sundays to put it simple where would we be without the free Grill?

By: Michelle Kavanagh

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